What can be planted next to carrots in the same bed?

Not all vegetables can get along with each other in the garden. Some cultures have a depressing effect on the development of neighbors. Carrot growers know that it is also necessary to carefully select the neighborhood for it. It is advisable to choose crops that are not only compatible with orange root crops, but also useful for them. It would be wise to draw up a joint planting scheme in advance.

Experienced summer residents know that it is better to plant in the same area with carrots. Their knowledge will help novice gardeners avoid possible difficulties and simplify the growing procedure. The formation of a carrot crop often depends on the correct planting of vegetables and compliance with crop rotation.

Many crops can be planted next to carrots. When deciding on the choice of neighbors in the garden, they act according to simple rules.

• Vegetables or herbs growing in the neighborhood should have similar care requirements to carrots. Prefer abundant watering, appropriate fertilizers (nitrogen at the initial stage of development, later - phosphorus and potassium).
• There should be no competition for nutrients between crops growing nearby.
• Vegetables must have different pests to prevent them from multiplying.
• To save space in an open area, it is better to plant a root crop with early maturing crops.

Onions can be safely planted next to carrots in the same bed. This is a standard outdoor vegetable mix that helps each other fight pests. Onion phytoncides do not perceive the carrot fly and root mite, and the root crop scares away moths and onion flies from the garden. But the disadvantage of such a neighborhood will be that these crops require different amounts of water. When the bulb is properly saturated with water, a larger volume will harm it, while carrots, on the contrary, need more moisture at this time. Here you will have to decide - leave the onion solely for protection, not counting on a good harvest, or lose carrots, but prevent the onion from rotting.

The problem can be solved by planting a moisture-loving culture in the same garden bed, which will not allow water to come to the onion. But even in this case, the likelihood of competition for an important natural resource is not excluded. Good compatibility with carrots not only in onions, but also in other species: leeks, chives. When planting carrots around it, some features are taken into account. It is advisable to sow onions before carrots so that the root crop does not fall under return frost. Then flowering can begin. If you plant a crop together with onion sets, then carrots are sown 3 weeks earlier than onions.

There is no consensus about this neighborhood. Some gardeners are convinced that legumes in the neighborhood are not the best option for carrots. But there are more positive opinions about the proximity to root crops of peas and beans. Judging by the experience of most farmers, carrots grow very large and juicy next to beans. Legumes give the soil airiness by saturating it with nitrogen. Therefore, a good harvest of carrots can grow near the crops of peas.

It is worth noting that carrots are also a friendly neighborhood for peas, so we can call this a favorable mutually beneficial tandem of two crops. Sowing is best organized by alternating rows and leaving spacings large enough so that the plants are not constrained. Nevertheless, during the season, legumes grow on a fairly large scale, and carrots need a lot of light.

This plant is a natural disinfectant, releasing phytoncides into the atmosphere, scaring off adult insects and their larvae. But this is not all of his abilities. The fragrant plant protects its neighbors from infection with fungal infections. If you plant carrots next to garlic, the safety of the crop will increase significantly. In addition, root crops will increase immunity to infections. It is best to plant garlic along the edge of the carrot beds. Even in the absence of garlic in the garden, its disinfecting properties are preserved in the soil, protecting it from the sudden appearance of larvae.

If it is planned to plant both crops for the winter, the garden must be marked out in advance, since the plants are planted at different times. Sow the garlic in October, preparing the aisles for the carrots. The root crop is sown a month later. After that, the entire garden bed is mulched with peat mixed with humus and compost. In the spring, in the last decade of March, garlic is actively growing. After two weeks, carrots will reach for him. The ripening period for garlic falls in July.

Carrots have a beneficial effect on aromatic herbs growing nearby. In turn, spices such as sage and marjoram envelop root crops with a strong spicy aroma, confusing and repelling malicious pests. Carrots and aromatic herbs complement each other perfectly within the same garden. The rows of landings alternate. By the time the vegetables are harvested, spicy vegetation will also ripen.

This crop saturates the soil with nitrogen, which has a beneficial effect on the growth and quality of carrots. As a result, you can get a good and tasty root crop harvest. It is recommended to plant tomatoes through the garden, determining enough space for each crop. It is better to plant low-growing varieties of tomatoes in the garden... If tall varieties are selected, they are planted from the northeast of the carrots. And also radish and early maturing greens grow successfully in the open field next to carrots. The seeds of these crops are sown at the same time. All these crops support each other, so seed emergence is maximized. At the same time, sowing in the furrows is extremely uniform and in the future, with a high probability, there will be no need for thinning.

Early crops ripen quickly, and the bed is freed up, leaving a lot of free space for the carrots to actively grow and develop. The only nuance of co-cultivation will be the need to increase the portions of fertilizers. Because several crops grown at the same time require more nutrients. It will be useful to plant marigolds or marigolds along the beds with carrots. With their scent, they will scare away flies and aphids.

Will not harm carrots and the neighborhood with the following plants:

• cabbage;
• broccoli;
• turnip;
• swede.

This is a long day plant for which loose, oxygen-rich soil is preferable, necessarily fertile... A substrate with neutral acidity or slightly alkaline is suitable for growing spinach.

Similar requirements for the composition of the soil and carrots. Therefore, root crops can, without hesitation, be placed in the same garden as spinach. On warm days, plantings need watering twice a week, and in a cool period, one watering every seven days is enough.

Carrots support the growth and development of radishes that reciprocate. At the same time, the germination of seeds of both vegetable crops increases.This sowing method does not require thinning. Those vegetables that ripen earlier give way to later seedlings. Thus, the root crop gets a lot of room for active growth. When planting at the same time, it is advisable to slightly increase the dosage of dressings.

It is common for this culture to grow bushes up to 50-60 cm in height. Peppers can give the carrots unnecessary shade. Therefore, they are planted at a distance of half a meter or more. Root crops can be placed along the perimeter of the garden bed, and a place in the center under the pepper.

Garden strawberry is a plant with a long whisker that can spill over into the root vegetable patch. Therefore, planting carrots and strawberries next to it, you will have to control so that one of them does not drown out the development of the other.

The plant also releases long whips. So that it does not negatively affect the carrots, it is necessary to maintain a distance of 60-70 cm between two different vegetables. Crops will not negatively affect each other if the cucumber lashes are directed along the garden bed.

Carrots may be compatible with beets. But only if you divide the bed in half - defining one half for carrots, and the second for beets. These vegetable crops require almost the same watering and feeding, they are not antagonists for each other. But it is worth considering that beets have more powerful tops, which can drown out delicate carrots.... Therefore, they are not advised to sow in rows, alternating, it would be more correct to divide the site into two crops.

Carrots have neutral compatibility with zucchini... Therefore, you can confidently plant these two vegetable crops nearby.

There are crops for which combined plantings with carrots are unacceptable. And there are good reasons for this. Planting root crops together with umbrella plants - anise, dill and parsley - is contraindicated due to the fact that plants of the same family are threatened by the attack of the same pests and the same diseases.

Growing carrots near cruciferous crops is a constant competition for nutrients. Plants fight for valuable resources and as a result, someone always has to give in and die. Another unfavorable neighborhood is carrot beds under apple trees. Only in this case, the cultures are not destructive in relation to each other, but worsen the taste of the fruits. Carrots and apples grow bitter.

• Horseradish... The root vegetable growing near the carrot grows into the deep layers of the soil and releases substances that spoil the taste of the carrot. At the same time, he competes with her for minerals, taking away a significant part of the nutritional components. Another disadvantage is the shadow from the highly developed ground part of the horseradish. In shaded conditions, carrots yield poor yields.
• Celery... Belongs to the same family as carrots. Based on this, celery is prone to the same diseases and attracts the same pests. It is not recommended to plant it on the same bed with an orange vegetable. On celery, the most harmful insects for umbrella crops flock - carrot flies. Sowing carrots near celery will lead to a massive invasion of pests. In addition, related crops on the same bed require an approximately identical set of nutrients, while depriving each other.
• Cabbage... The roots of this vegetable crop secrete substances destructive to carrots. The source of carotene begins to rot without proper replenishment. In addition, a shadow is formed from the large leaves of white cabbage, which is not needed for a photophilous culture. Another argument against planting together is that they are related crops and are susceptible to the same pathogens.
• Pumpkin... Pumpkin shoots grow about 2-5 meters in length, and its leaf plates are large in size.If pumpkin shoots end up in a carrot bed, the pumpkin will drown out the carrot plantings. And planting them at a great distance is uneconomical.
• Potato... The nightshade crop grows numerous tubers underground. Carrots also develop underground, where there is inevitably a struggle between crops for moisture and needed nutrients. Potatoes also have voluminous aboveground vegetation, which inhibits carrot tops.

With an illiterate approach to sowing vegetables, the quality of the crop inevitably decreases and even its loss occurs.... If crops are planted nearby that require different irrigation regimes, the root crop may rot or dry out.

Vegetables from the category of competitors begin to absorb nutrients in the soil, and carrots will turn out to be small and tasteless. If plants are attractive to one type of pest, large-scale infection and loss of yield cannot be avoided. In addition, planting incompatible crops together spoils the taste of each of them.

If it turns out that carrots grow near a prohibited plant, it is important to take action as soon as possible. This will preserve at least some of the fruit or vegetation. For example, dill, parsley and other spices must be pulled out as soon as they sprout. Such plants are already suitable for food use. And if the roots grow next to the apple tree, you will have to sacrifice the carrot harvest. Otherwise, the apples of the new crop will taste bitter.

It should be remembered that it is undesirable to transplant carrots.... When dug up, the root partially remains in the soil, and the fruit grows, taking on a distorted shape. Such fruits turn out to be tasteless and lose their benefits. If the carrots grow near the beets, then the latter will have to be carefully transplanted. This should be done by keeping a clod of earth around the roots of the fruit.